FID, Strats, Release Manager - Vice President

FID, Strats, Release Manager - Vice President

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Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic.

• Coordinate testing and release process for Fixed Income pricing and risk modelling libraries and reference data.
• Manage source code branches, prepare and deliver release candidate builds, and work with QA, IT, trading desk strategists, and production support teams through the test cycle to sign‑off, integration into consumer applications, and release.
• Maintain continuity of SDLC activities in Follow the Sun model in a global release management team with colleagues in India and London.
• Improve automated build, release, integration and testing infrastructure covering C++, Java, and Scala source code.
• Configure Jenkins jobs, source‑code management tooling, and support trading desk strategists’ use of development environment.
• Build libraries consistently on multiple platforms and integrate them into the varied application landscape.

• Extensive experience as hands‑on release manager, testing, or application support specialist, preferably in financial services.
• Extensive experience with Git and its use in support of feature and release branching strategies, patching, release notes management.
• Extensive experience managing testing cycles, bug tracking, stakeholder communication, release prioritisation, change management.
• Extensive experience using Jenkins, Bit Bucket and effectively using these to build release candidates and optimise build automation flow.
• Experience writing scripts (e.g., in Python) for promotion and propagation of artifacts, generation of release notes, custom SDLC actions.
• Experience working in a globally distributed team.

• Some development experience in Java or C++ to read source code for merging, test baselines.
• Experience with C++ development environment and multi‑platform C++ builds in Linux and Windows.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Bazel, CMake, Premake, Make, Visual Studio devenv/MSBuild, and build acceleration tools such as Incredibuild, distcc, ccache.
• Familiarity with standard code quality tools such as Sonar, cpplint.
• Familiarity with package/dependency management tools such as Conan, Maven, Artifactory.

We are committed to maintaining the first‑class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - guide our decisions each day. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work with the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered.

There’s ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work. Morgan Stanley offers attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $160,000 and $250,000 for Vice President at commencement of employment. Base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, and other sponsored benefit programs.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

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